SCIENCE
Should there be more public financing for scientific investigation?
More than what? Where? What kind of investigation? The world is so different - there is no single answer to this question.
Absolutely, and there are many reasons. We are on the way to become a globalized society that is almost entirely dominated by technology related problems and solutions. We already have the situation that much of our contamporary technology is controlled by corporations - genetic engineering is an example. As a result there is little - or no - democratic control over these technologies and their application, which strikes me as dubious. Another aspect is that privately funded research usually is profit oriented and thus moves wherever the money is. Problems that are unlikely to be profitable if solves are unlikely to be addressed, and existing technologies often block the passage towards new ways of thinking. Peak oil and nuclear energy are examples: as energy prices soar, the old technologies become ever more profitable before they finally collapse, so there is little incentive for corporations for early investment in new technologies. On the contrary.
A third topic is the relationship between fundamental research and innovation. Even as we speak, here in the year 2011, much of our contemporary technology is rooted in the fundamental research of the 19th and early 20th century. Especially Europe has to bank (and bet) on its intellectual achievements - there simply is nothing else. And the invisible hand of the allegedly free market cannot even bail out itself - so I wouldn't trust that one.   | | |
There should be more financing for the public to understand science. A democracy requires an informed and educated citizenry.
definitely - YES. Especially, PhD students, post-docs and senior researchers who spend over 60 hours per week and give their lives into research really deserve to be better payed. PhD students especially, they are the ones that get most of the work done and often bring in fresh and new ideas, and are the most underpaid and socially disadvantaged category.
it is enough if i say i made more money as a street musician playing 1 hour a day then as PhD student working 10-12 hours a day every day. It is simply shameful.
Its never enough!
Yes, but also better efficiency by better integration
Yes, we still lack a good amount of financial support to fulfill most of our needs as researchers. In Brazil, Education has a long way to go.
Yes...
Certainly. Its all about our future.
We get great funding from EQC
Definitely, science and research are not cheap they are very expensive but all this research is what has made a better life quality and most countries give more public financing to entertainment and politics than to science, education and research.
Yes, I think so. But there are sovereign debt problems in the world to prevent the financing. |
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